Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[chipboarder]

As long as everyone is behaving, I’ll share a few more thoughts…

THE ALLOY…I think it’s still 106b since that alloy was used to develop the process for color generation and there is more history.

FLEXIBILITY…Remember the demo where they bend a piece of amorphous metal in a testing machine and deflect it about 1.5” between 2 supports 4” apart? They were touting its ability to bend sharply and return to its original shape. That property, along with the proper cross-section can provide the degree of flexibility they talk about.

SCRATCHING….I have a gold ring with significant wear and it has been alloyed with another metal…12Kt gold only 50% gold. The 106b alloy is 72% zirconium which is a very hard element but we really know little about the “color generation” process. What I do recall is that the surface is bombarded with “something” to create an oxide layer and that layer, depending upon thickness makes the various colors. The thickness of this layer is similar to the wavelength of light. I suspect that the comments about scratching relate to some sort of damage to the very thin color layer which could originate in the assembly process as the electronics are pressed into place on the ring itself.. They will need to work on that manufacturing step eliminate that defect.

Cheers!